With regard to our overwhelming number of aberrant address translations centering around 3/21 - 3/22: Background: Most of our e-mail accounts are MUSIC/SP running as guest under VM/ESA. We run L-Mail 1.2a. The music domain is music.stlawu.edu where the VM domain is vm.stlawu.edu. On the morning of 3/22 we had over 1200 undeliverable messages on POSTMAST with error code 3 - No such local user. Where error was for: (valid_music_id)@vm.stlawu.edu. A small number of these messages were from ListProc 6.0 maillist servers. The overwhelming majority were from Listserv 1.8* servers. This used to work! What happened? We DID request a Name Server update from Sprint that (they say) went into effect 2am on 3/22. Our MX records on sprintlink.net appear to be correct. The problem has NOT gone away. I have had to set up default forwarding to MUSIC under LMail. What am I missing? For example, the following undeliverable for a music user, glab000, who is subscribed to [log in to unmask] as: [log in to unmask] ===================== begin sample ===================================== Return-Path: <> Received: from VM.STLAWU.EDU (NJE origin MAILER@STLAWU) by VM.STLAWU.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 3568; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 11:11:18 -0400 Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 11:10:54 -0400 Reply-To: [log in to unmask] From: RFC822 mailer (LMail release 1.2a/1.8a) <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Undelivered mail To: [log in to unmask] cc: [log in to unmask] X-Report-Type: Nondelivery; boundary="> Error description:" An error was detected while processing the enclosed message. A list of the affected recipients follows. This list is in a special format that allows software like LISTSERV to automatically take action on incorrect addresses; you can safely ignore the numeric codes. --> Error description: Error-For: [log in to unmask] Alias: [log in to unmask] Error-Code: 3 Error-Text: No such local user. Error-End: One error reported. ------------------------- Rejected message (30 lines) ------------------------- Received: from listmail.sunet.se by vm.stlawu.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with TCP; Mon, 03 Apr 95 11:08:04 EDT Received: from segate.sunet.se (segate.sunet.se [192.36.125.6]) by listmail.sunet.se (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA07789; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 17:02:17 +0200 Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE by SEARN.SUNET.SE (LISTSERV release 1.8b) with NJE id 4425 for [log in to unmask]; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 16:57:20 +0200 Received: from SEARN (NJE origin SMTPF@SEARN) by SEARN.SUNET.SE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 6965; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 16:57:19 +0200 Received: from ux1.cso.uiuc.edu by SEARN.SUNET.SE (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with TCP; Mon, 03 Apr 95 16:57:17 +0200 Received: from [128.174.136.245] (pc245.lang.uiuc.edu) by ux1.cso.uiuc.edu with SMTP id AA18084 (5.67b8/IDA-1.5 for <[log in to unmask]>); Mon, 3 Apr 1995 10:00:17 -0500 X-Nupop-Charset: English Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 09:57:27 CST Reply-To: "Interpreting (and) translation" <[log in to unmask]> Sender: "Interpreting (and) translation" <[log in to unmask]> From: Jim Marchand <[log in to unmask]> Subject: pathetisch G>E To: Multiple recipients of list LANTRA-L <[log in to unmask]> A good question, Evelyn. Goethe was once accused of anti-Semitism because he said "Das barocke Judendeutsch hat etwas Pathetisches an sich", with a misunderstanding of _barock_ and _pathetisch_. Probably the best we can do in English (acc. to context, comme toujours) is `full of pathos', in German `gefuehlsvoll'. These false friends (I give my class a list of about 200) are the bane of the translator's existence, and you have to be on the qui vive for them. Jim Marchand. Helen P. Nulty 315-379-5979 Fax: 315-379-5539 Systems Manager e-mail: [log in to unmask] St. Lawrence University OR [log in to unmask] Computer Operations, Launders Computing Center Canton, NY 13617